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If I only was a sponge
toddc
Content type: Blog entry
Sometimes I feel like the scare crow in the Wizard of Oz. Not because I feel I'm missing a brain but because i wish I was a sponge. I want the capability to immediately soak up all the information available for playing vibes. And I want it…
15 years 8 months ago - 3 comments
Birds by Werner Pirchner ca. 1974?
toddc
Content type: Audio Player
Austria Drei was the first group I produced. Werner Pirchner(malletts) and Harry Pepl(git) were just great creative guys and I loved playing with them so we made the Austria Drei LP. I think we did the recording in the winter of 1973.…
15 years 8 months ago - 3 comments
Vibe Trio CD's
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
What's your favorite cd(s) where the format is a vibes trio, that is Vibes, Bass and Drums?
15 years 8 months ago - 22 comments
Interesting Letter
tonymiceli
Content type: Story
I'll just pass this letter along for the real vibe geeks! This guy called Nico got information and then went to a machine shop to get the work done on his yamaha…
15 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
The Joe Doubleday Trio @ Ingrid's
Jdoubleday
Content type: Audio Player
Well all this talk about trios is leading me to post something from a gig I had last thursday. It is a trio setting although there is no bass player. I have a hard time finding bass players that I like to play with so I've resorted to just…
14 years 6 months ago - 7 comments
The Dreamer by Joel Frahm
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
I've been messing around with this lick from Joel Frahm. I dug it because of the bebop and the 4ths and wanted to study it. The side benefit from studying something like this is you can work on sticking ideas with vocabulary. I want to…
15 years 8 months ago - 4 comments
Pastor
David Friedman
Content type: Audio Player
Also from, "Ternaire", this crazy piece was written by the great french clarinettist, saxophonist and composer, Michel Portal. Check out the bass line by Jean-François Jenny Clark.
15 years 8 months ago - 11 comments
Solar by Tony Miceli
vibraman
Content type: Audio Player
This is a post by Tarik: Another cut from my gig. It's pretty funny because we were subbing for a 13 piece latin band, which explains my little latin stint at the end of the tune. I did tell the audience that they should expect us to try…
4 years 6 months ago - 27 comments
Recommended DVD: Gary and Makoto
John Keene
Content type: Blog entry
I just wanted to give a quick shout-out to recommend the DVD of Gary and Makoto Ozone's Live at Montreux DVD from the 2002 performance. I was just websurfing last week at Amazon and discovered this, and I didn't even know that it was…
15 years 8 months ago - 1 comments
All Blues
David Friedman
Content type: Audio Player
Another tune from "Ternaire", this time it's "All Blues" by Miles
14 years 6 months ago - 6 comments
Visit my FaceBook page at John Mark Piper
Piper
Content type: Event
Hey I'm just getting started on Facebook and thought I'd mention it here... (I need friends and fans). Check it out. You can hear many of my recordings by clicking on the "My Band" tab. (Thanks Michael Pinto).
15 years 8 months ago - 4 comments
Up Jumped Spring by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
Here's a cut from my gig last night.
14 years 6 months ago - 6 comments
Ed Saindon clinic at the Academy of Music in Munich on Thursday, March 11th
ed saindon
Content type: Event
Hello fellow vibists, I'll be giving a clinic at the Academy of Music in Munich on Thursday, March 11th sponsored by Vic Firth and hosted by Peter Sadlo and Arnold Riedhammer. I'll cover the Fulcrum Grip, dampening techniques, improv…
15 years 8 months ago - 4 comments
Bas de Lou
David Friedman
Content type: Audio Player
This is also from "Ternaire". It's a ballad by Daniel Humair, that I basically had to sight read at the gig. Check out the key.
14 years 6 months ago - 3 comments
Birk's Works by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
We are all posting away! On one hand it's cool, it's what I was hoping for. On the other hand, this site is probably at 13 or 14 gigs now of data! Wow!!! Well that's why my partner is a programmer and owns an ISP company! Here's another…
14 years 6 months ago - 4 comments
Zipper Teaseuse
David Friedman
Content type: Audio Player
This is the first tune from a live CD "Ternaire", with Daniel Humair, drums, Jean-François Jenny Clark, bass and yours truly on vibes. It was recorded live in Paris, 1992 in La Villa. The balance is not great but the music has it's merits…
14 years 6 months ago - 5 comments
The Vibes Trio
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
I have a hard time when I'm playing trio. That is when I'm playing a concert and playing trio (vibes, bass and drums). It's easy if you're wallpaper music, or if it's a short set but two one hour sets can be intimidating for me. I played…
15 years 8 months ago - 11 comments
For My Part of the Delaware Workshop
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
For my (Tony Miceli) part of the workshop I'll cover many of the things that I cover here. Stride Vibes Lines (clarity) Learning Tunes Playing Tunes in 12 keys (How easy it really is) I'm always interesting in talking about getting…
15 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
2010 Workshop at Univ. Of Delaware with Friedman and Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Webform
This workshop will take place in the great campus of University of Delaware. Students will have their own practice room and instrument. At the same time as our workshop Bob Becker from Nexus will be giving a workshop on ragtime playing on…
15 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
Milt Laments!
tonymiceli
Content type: Video Embed
Mike Pinto had this up over at our store! Have you checked out our store??
15 years 8 months ago - 3 comments
FYI
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
The best students are the ones who teach themselves and as a result have lots and lots of questions for their teachers.. When I teach a class and we do nothing that I had prepared, then it was a great class usually. For some reason that…
15 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
Very Interesting
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
It's interesting all the feedback I'm getting about my thoughts on trio playing. toddc, jondaly, keene and friedman are all making great points. I've been thinking really hard about all this lately. I've been thinking about musically what…
15 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
Relaxing at Camarillo Excerpt by Bird - Transcribe This -V
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
I was playing along with this recording. The head is really interesting, rhythmic and syncopated. Birds solo is so simple and cool, just makes the changes. I've been playing along with the melody and the solo for a couple days, and then…
1 year 6 months ago - 6 comments
My Romance - Chord Study by Tony Miceli
tonymiceli
Content type: Audio Player
Here's a chord study for the tune 'My Romance'. I talk and demonstrate and I've posted some voicings to check out and use with the exercises I talk about.
14 years 6 months ago - 1 comments
Lessons From Behn Gillece
tonymiceli
Content type: Blog entry
Behn is coming down to shoot some video and do some lessons! I know some of you (me too) really dig Behn's playing. So this is good news! He'll be coming down this week, and hopefull I'll have stuff up next weekend.
15 years 8 months ago - 2 comments
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